Compelling:
The West’s net-zero policies are handing China a huge strategic advantage
While Western nations close reliable energy and raise costs, China adds wind and solar without giving up coal, oil or gas—then sells us the panels, batteries and other products our mandates require
China’s approach is “add, don’t subtract”: build renewables and nuclear power while continuing to expand fossil fuels. This supplies cheap, dependable energy for Chinese industry. Meanwhile, many Western governments deliberately make their own energy more expensive and become increasingly dependent on Chinese solar panels, batteries, critical minerals and manufacturing.
Western climate organizations scrutinize democracies far more aggressively than China, where independent activism is impossible and access depends on the state.
Climate policy should be judged by its actual effect on global emissions, energy prices, industrial competitiveness and dependence on China—not simply by whether it appears ambitious at home.
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Italy is preparing to ban face coverings in schools and cap the number of foreign students per class, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said as she played up her right-wing credentials at a youth event organized by her party. https://t.co/DjLkzpqFXl
Der deutsche Weg zu einem Endlager für radioaktive Abfälle weist Parallelen zur Brandmauer auf. Das alternativlose Beharren auf einen einmal festgelegten Endlagerpfad ist längst nicht mehr zu rechtfertigen, schreibt @UlrichGraeber. https://t.co/yJCypycF6y